title: Chest wall sarcoma: 18F-FDG PET/CT in a patient with Li-Fraumeni syndrome.
abstract: Li-Fraumeni syndrome is an autosomal dominant inherited disorder also known as the SBLA cancer syndrome (sarcoma, breast, leukemia, and adrenal). A 39-year-old female patient with a history of bilateral breast cancer treated with bilateral mastectomies and radiation treatment 4 years ago and left chest wall pleomorphic sarcoma 1 year ago presented with a small hypermetabolic right chest wall mass on 18F-FDG PET/CT. This mass was found to be a spindle cell sarcoma. FDG PET/CT plays an important role in following up oncology patients, particularly in group of high-risk malignancy, for detecting small hypermetabolic lesions.
authors.affiliation: From the Department of Imaging Sciences, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY.
authors.forename: Tyson
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Chadaz
authors.forename: Susan K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Hobbs
authors.forename: Hongju
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Son
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D006801:Humans; D016864:Li-Fraumeni Syndrome / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D012509:Sarcoma / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D035441:Thoracic Wall / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
chemical_list: D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18